http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/uncgi/Earth
A real-time view of sunlight on the Earth. You can view a flat map, the Earth from the sun’s view, the moon’s view, and a night view. Understanding why the Arctic and Antarctic experience 24 hours of sunlight or darkness becomes clear with this visual representation.

Activities:
- An ideal way to use this website would be to acquire an old computer having the capability of displaying this website constantly in the classroom. Students can observe daily, monthly, seasonally how sunlight changes on the planet in relation to the Earth’s rotations, tilt and revolutions.
- Have students measure across the map and then across the sunlight at their latitude. They can work with ratios of available sunlight and compare them to other places on the globe. Over time, students can see how the sunlight reaching them changes and why the days become shorter or longer.
- Compare the picture of the sunlight to sunrise and sunset information available in newspapers
(By Louise Huffman)

http://www.penguinscience.com/penguin_flyer.htm
What is more fun than learning about penguins? How about adopting one for your classroom! A teacher traveling to Antarctica with Dr. David Ainley, an adelie penguin scientist, will send your class pictures and updates on your adopted penguin’s health and activities, as she aides in his research. Even after the research expedition ends, this website will provide images and activities for teaching about penguins and Antarctic science.

Activity: Students will be able to adopt a breeding pair of adelie penguins, and analyze the factors and variables that will make their pair successful parents. Pictures of each pair will be posted on the Internet for students to observe along with other data they can record and analyze. The interactive website will also provide general information about penguins, classroom activities written for grades 4-8, pictures, maps, and other educational and exciting links about living and working in Antarctica. (By Louise Huffman)

http://www.educapoles.org/index.php?fun_zone.Multimedia_animations&s=7&rs=13&lg=en
The International Polar Foundation has developed a website with many activities and teaching ideas for young children. It includes animations, images and games on a wide variety of polar topics including comparing the Arctic and Antarctic, scientists at work, ice coring, polar bears, seals, whales, birds, krill, penguins, climate, energy, seasons, and ice.

Activity: Through a cute animation, young children explore a comparison on polar bears and penguins and why they will never meet. (By Louise Huffman)

http://photolibrary.usap.gov/
The US Antarctic Program provides hundreds of pictures on this site of people, scientists, scenery, ice, transportation, wildlife, historical, and a section called “new.”

Activity: Use the images in a powerpoint or photostory to teach about Antarctica. OR, assign each student a picture to research and prepare a report telling its story and place in the Antarctic ecosystem.
(By Louise Huffman)

http://www.awi.de/AWI/Presse/Fotoseite/IPY-CD/
This website provides many polar images. They are organized under the topics of Antarctic Landscape and Research and Arctic Landscape and Research.

Activity:Use the images in a PowerPoint presentation or photo story to compare the two polar regions.
(By Louise Huffman)